The SS Terra Nova (1884-1943) : Whaler, Sealer and Polar Exploration Ship
Publisher: The History Press Ltd
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SS Terra Nova was most famous for being the vessel to carry the ill-fated 1910 polar expedition led by Robert Falcon Scott, but the story of this memorable ship continued until 1943, when she sank off Greenland. Built in wood to enable flexibility in the ice, she remains one of the classic polar exploration ships of the 'heroic age'.
This newly designed and updated edition presents the definitive illustrated account of the Terra Nova's remarkable sixty-year history. Put together from accounts recorded by the men who sailed in her, it tells the story of a ship built by a famous Scottish shipbuilding yard in the nineteenth-century days of whaling and sealing, before coal gas and electricity replaced animal oils.
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